EdTech Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

After nearly a full year of remote learning, the Los Gatos Union School District in California reopened its schools in February with a hybrid learning model: Half the students attend school for in-class instruction, while the other half join live through videoconferencing, allowing teachers to teach both groups simultaneously. To ensure safe social distancing, each cohort attends class in person on alternate days.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 24, 2021

This post is written by Jon Kelley, bacon and coffee-loving educator in Delaware, Ohio, and 2019 Canvas National Educator of the Year. Jon is a Teaching and Learning Coach for Delaware City Schools. You can connect with Jon on Twitter @MrKelley64. The homepage of your Canvas course is the first glimpse students and families have of your virtual […].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2021

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Backup Your Work Often. Category: Maintenance, Security, Email.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 24, 2021

With the closures of local libraries due to the current pandemic, book lovers experience what Concepción de León called 'literary withdrawal'. However, this does not have to be a crippling condition.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Summer school is a hot topic right now, for good reason. We know that remote instruction and disrupted hybrid learning during the pandemic have led to enormous learning loss , particularly for low-income students and students with learning disabilities and differences. Last year, 28 percent of kindergarten students were “well below benchmark” (the lowest category) in early literacy skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Today’s students don’t know the world without the internet. They spend days and nights on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat but hardly know how to translate all this information into learning. Gen Z doesn’t necessarily think critically about what they find online. As educators, we can teach the academic side of the internet to them.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Real-time polling, original instructional videos, virtual conferences, and live on-screen annotation are just a few new skills teacher Jonathan Delgado is adding to his teaching toolkit this school year. When Delgado begins his high school Spanish class at The Village School each day, he’s learning to manage many new things simultaneously in this year’s hybrid learning environment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2021

How To Use Google Drive: A Tutorial For Teachers [Updated]. by TeachThought Staff. Using the cloud in the classroom can be a powerful thing. One of the most common uses of the cloud in today’s classroom is word processing, and one of the most common cloud-based word processing platforms is Google Drive. We’ve talked about offering voice feedback to documents.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s been a busy few months for schools reopening—and perhaps an even busier time for the agencies releasing guidance on how to do those reopenings safely. In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools, a collection of prevention strategies and implementation tips for safe in-person learning.

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Sell Courses Online

MARCH 24, 2021

The post Top 42 Online Community Statistics & Trends for 2021 appeared first on Sell Courses Online. … Top 42 Online Community Statistics & Trends for 2021 Read the Post. The post Top 42 Online Community Statistics & Trends for 2021 appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

The AVerCharge X16 is an Adjustable and Configurable Student Device Charging and Storage Cart Designed for Today’s Ever-Changing Classroom. AVer Information Inc., the award-winning provider of video collaboration, distance learning and education technology solutions, announced today the launch of the innovative AVerCharge X16 , a 16 device customizable charging and storage solution.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 24, 2021

The post Get MORE Fonts for Your Google Projects! (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Yes, you can get MORE fonts for your Google projects! Do you get frustrated by the font selection in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, etc.? At first, the list of fonts in most Google applications seems very limited. If you are a font snob, this just doesn’t cut it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

McGraw Hill today announced that it has acquired Kidaptive, Inc., an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide. Kidaptive’s world-class team of learning scientists, psychometricians, data scientists and engineers will join a new Center for Innovation within McGraw Hill’s School group, led by Chief Innovation Officer Dr.

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techieMusings

MARCH 24, 2021

Find the full blog post on the Bullis School website. Visual Art Peer Critiques Reimagined. Shifting to an asynchronous presentation format allowed all students to actively engage and give constructive feedback on the work of their classmates . In a typical year, Art teacher Alice Shih-Kahn would spend two or three class periods having students present their “Music & Me” projects and engaging the class in a peer critique.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

“Student Level Data Engagement Analysis” aggregates device and app usage data to assess student engagement. New analysis from CatchOn, an expansive data analytics and application monitoring tool for K-12 schools, finds that while districts experienced a significant decline in student engagement at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many quickly rebounded, reaching higher levels of digital engagement than before the pandemic.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 24, 2021

When his two middle schoolers wondered about a tree house, principal Matt Renwick’s bright idea was to engage them in an at-home Genius Hour project. His three take-aways from the experience can help us understand the teacher’s role in creative learning and risk-taking. The post Leading Genius Hour with 2 Middle Schoolers first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Educators, academics, and industry experts are invited to apply or nominate others for a paid one-week Design Studio to create inclusive, future-oriented content maps across 25 discipline areas. reDesign , an educational design consultancy, is launching an all-call for K-12 content discipline experts from diverse backgrounds and geographies to join together this summer to re-envision the “canon” of K-12 content.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 24, 2021

Image Source When I first read this suggested topic title I groaned, thinking of those teachers who too easily resort to showing a TV program or movie in class when they just don't want to teach. Yet. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 24, 2021

GameChangineer is a fantastic site that I just found out about that helps students learn how to program/code in a simple and unique way. The way GameChangineer works is simply by typing in what you want to happen in the game or by thinking/typing out loud. Students will begin to use their computational thinking and sequential skills to develop a game.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

As part of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), students need to "ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century." Many teachers have little to no formal training on how to teach about climate change. Along with the ever-changing research and the controversy that comes with it, it's understandable that some teachers may shy away from the content, or even prevent students from digging in too deep.

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Edthena

MARCH 24, 2021

Student achievement should not be guided only by listening and sitting but should be driven by being an active participant. The curiosity of students is the best way to learn willingly. Teachers can honestly speak about how they are learning something new to help students understand that even teachers make mistakes. Pedro Noguera is the Dean of University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.

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Turnitin

MARCH 24, 2021

Roslyn Miller and Amanda Major’s insights on STEM and ELA assessment--the differences, the intersections, and ultimately, the best assessment practices.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 24, 2021

SplashLearn is a wonderful, super easy-to-use, free all-in-one online Math platform for grades K-5. SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 24, 2021

"Protecting Your Library From a Fire” Part of a special Library 2.0 series - featuring Robert May, JD, former Fire Chief, and hosted by Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0 featuring former multi-city Fire Chief Robert May, JD and hosted by Dr. Steve Albrecht (board certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat management).

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2021

When schools shuttered suddenly more than a year ago, teachers and staff scrambled to recreate their school communities as best they could in a virtual environment. And while teaching and learning is a central component, not to be overlooked are the other, auxiliary experiences: the relationships forged, the support services provided, the social-emotional needs met.

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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 24, 2021

Designing graphics is a great way to enhance your slideshows, videos, newsletters, and more. I love to try new (to me) online graphic design tools and put them through their paces! I recently discovered MockoFUN , a graphic design toolset which works right in the Web browser and includes a photo editor, a logo maker, and a text editor. After registering for an account, and seeing how easy it was to create great-looking graphics, I sent a note to MockoFUN and asked if they would consider an educa

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 24, 2021

Can you relate to this? – You teach a lesson. You give your students the quiz and there are varying levels of mastery. You create a new lesson that night to then reteach the next day. You check for understanding…the kids totally understand. You quiz again…and they didn’t totally understand. Can you relate to this? – Your grade level team identifies an area of need/standard based on old data.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2021

The U.S. Education Department has released the first in a series of school surveys intended to provide a national view of learning during the pandemic. It reveals that the percentage of students who are still attending school virtually may be higher than previously understood. As of January and early February of this year, 44% of elementary students and 48% of middle school students in the survey remained fully remote.

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